All posts tagged "Agression"

Los Angeles (AFP) - Danny Masterson, a prominent Scientologist who was jailed this week for raping two women, was a "role model" to fellow actor Ashton Kutcher, the star told a judge according to a  letter that emerged Friday. Masterson was sentenced to at least 30 years' prison for drugging and sexually assaulting his victims at his swanky Los Angeles home two decades earlier. In a submission to the sentencing judge, Kutcher -- who starred alongside Masterson in retro sitcom "That '70s Show" -- said the older actor had been "nothing but a positive influence" on him. "I met Danny Masterson whe......

New York (AFP) - British writer Salman Rushdie attended a New York gala on Thursday night in his first public appearance since a knife attack that nearly took his life last year.  The award-winning novelist, a naturalized American who has lived in New York for 20 years, lost sight in one eye after being stabbed on stage in August while speaking at a US arts center.  On Thursday, he was given an honorary award at an event hosted by PEN America, a group that defends freedom of expression and literature, of which Rushdie was previously the president. The 75-year-old, wearing glasses with a black ......

New York (AFP) - Disgraced movie star Kevin Spacey takes the stand at his New York trial, rejecting as "not true" accusations he sexually assaulted fellow actor Anthony Rapp when he was a minor. Rapp, who stars in the series "Star Trek: Discovery," is claiming damages of $40 million against the two-time Oscar-winner for "emotional anguish," for what allegedly happened in 1986, when he was 14 and Spacey was 26. Spacey said he had no recollection of attending a private party in a Manhattan apartment with Rapp, as the now 50-year-old claims. Before appearing in court Monday, Spacey, 63, won a sma......